8 best-selling science fiction books like The Coming of the Old Ones by Jeffrey Thomas

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The Coming of the Old Ones

By: Jeffrey Thomas

3.73

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Three stories of horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. AROUND THE CORNER - A man…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Coming of the Old Ones by Jeffrey Thomas , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

1. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

Similar categories in H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti

2. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1) by R.L. Stine

3. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)

By: R.L. Stine

4.50

Format: 122 pages,

Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. A… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Last Days by Brian Evenson, Peter Straub

4. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Last Days book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Ruins by Scott        Smith

5. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

Similar categories in Scott Smith's The Ruins book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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6. Creekers

By: Edward Lee

3.83

Format: 414 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When centuries-old creatures called the Creekers turn his hometown into a sea of horrible carnage, … read more

Similar categories in Edward Lee's Creekers book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Header

By: Edward Lee

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Unknown Binding

Grandpappy, what's a header? Header is a tale of consummate grotesquerie from the master of graphic… read more

Similar categories in Edward Lee's Header book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Little Book

By: Selden Edwards

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Bookis … read more

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Cover of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

9. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

Cover of Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

10. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fiction
  • horror
"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

11. Prey

By: Michael Crichton

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robo… read more

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12. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

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13. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

14. The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

Cover of This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

15. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's In Bloom book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill

17. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Summer Frost

By: Blake Crouch

4.10

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more

Similar categories in Blake Crouch's Summer Frost book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because sometimes life is so rich and complicated and surprising that it takes your breath away."

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectiveyly, which is allowed by consciousnes…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

Cover of Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1) by Guillermo del Toro

19. Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.56

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in … read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you."

-Guillermo del Toro, Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

Cover of The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether

20. The Beasts of Success

By: Jasun Ether

4.32

Format: 445 pages, ebook

In this dog-eat-dog world, three friends find themselves getting nowhere in their careers despite t… read more

Similar categories in Jasun Ether's The Beasts of Success book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

"A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free."

-Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

"It was one of those early spring days where the winter had fought its way back in a relentless pursuit to stay in the limelight, even though it knew its days were numbered."

-Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

"In understanding the nature and the bigger picture of the game from an omniscient viewpoint, a player could manifest his own destiny infinitely more effectively than any two-dimensional-thinking dimw…"

-Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

Cover of The House at Phantom Park by Graham Masterton

21. The House at Phantom Park

By: Graham Masterton

3.39

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Disturbing. Original. Terrifying. The 'master of horror' is back with the chilling tale of what lur… read more

Similar categories in Graham Masterton's The House at Phantom Park book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Scanlines

By: Todd Keisling

3.83

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1987, Congressman Benjamin Hardy III died by suicide on live television amidst accusations of po… read more

Similar categories in Todd Keisling's Scanlines book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1) by Jack  Townsend

24. Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

By: Jack Townsend

4.20

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless… read more

Similar categories in Jack Townsend's Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"His coffee always tasted like the pot was in need of a good cleaning, and smelled like he’d figured out a way to burn the water before brewing."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"Did you guys really need to take off all your clothing?" Paul shrugged and said, "It's only weird if you make it weird." "No," I responded, "It's weird either way."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"I thought back to what Dr. V had said during that visit, about preserving the integrity of my brain. I looked Tony in the eyes and said, "Aim for the head, please."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"When he had finally run out of steam, there were beads of sweat all over his face. I grabbed a couple napkins and offered them, which he accepted with a confused “Thanks,"

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

25. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2) by Guillermo del Toro

26. The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.03

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

On an isolated mountain, a stone labyrinth provides rough shelter for a band of mercenaries. At its… read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6) by Guillermo del Toro

27. Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.06

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Dawn breaks, but the nightmare only intensifies in the shocking finale of The Boy in the Iron Box. … read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Other: Encounters With The Cthulhu Mythos Book One (The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle 1) by Troy Young

28. The Other: Encounters With The Cthulhu Mythos Book One (The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle 1)

By: Troy Young

4.00

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Re-edited June, 2023It started as a typical day in a sleepy little coastal village. But little did … read more

Similar categories in Troy Young's The Other: Encounters With The Cthulhu Mythos Book One (The Other: The Nyarlathotep Cycle 1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • science fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

29. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Coming of the Old Ones by Jeffrey Thomas

30. The Coming of the Old Ones

By: Jeffrey Thomas

3.73

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Three stories of horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. AROUND THE CORNER - A man… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
Cover of Gathered Dust and Others by W.H. Pugmire

31. Gathered Dust and Others

By: W.H. Pugmire

4.16

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W. H. Pugmire continues his radical and obsessiv… read more

Similar categories in W.H. Pugmire's Gathered Dust and Others book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Coming of the Old Ones

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • cthulhu mythos

27 Best fiction books like The Coming of the Old Ones by Jeffrey Thomas

Transform Your Habits

The Dunwich Horror

H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)

R.L. Stine

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Last Days

Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

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13 Best fiction books like Creekers by Edward Lee

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Depraved

Bryan Smith

3.80

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The Bighead

Edward Lee , Erik Wilson , Erik Wilson

3.70

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The Haunted Forest Tour

James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

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Books of Blood: Volume Two (Books of Blood #2)

Clive Barker

4.09

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